Lighting What are you waiting for? What's going to change the game? Who is doing interesting stuff?

[DCLXVI]

Yes, I took it all with a bit of skepticism. Especially on the claims of how much it helps. However, I did find the part about combatting powdery mildew quite interesting. If just running it a little helps with disease control that's a pretty good bonus.

I did read another article stating that UV light caused the plant to produce more or denser trichomes due to using them like sunscreen to prevent leaf damage. My old brain cannot remember or find it again.

 

[Filthy_Casual]

Here's the article I read before buying the fluorescent UV bulb: The claims are a little sensationalized but eh.... 28%? I dunno guys.

New Grow Hack Increases THC Levels By 28% – AgroMax

Looks like I'd be running it just 15min/hr maybe 3 or 4 times a day. Just a quick burst here and there.

are you gonna turn on manually or have a controller for it? That seems to be the amount of timepeople are using it for.

marketing, imo.

Companies making claims unsubstantiated to sell product, it will help some. About as much as leaving your plant in flower an extra 7 days.

ive seen threads where people are claiming improvements. also, cutting 7 says off a grow pays for the bulbs aftee a grow or two

Edit: someone’s gotta try this stuff! And if it’s people on here we can ask questions of, even better imo

 

[DCLXVI]

Im just going to put the uv fixture on a mechanical timer. Probably 3 15min sessions a day in the middle of the lights on period. I'll just do 15min to start since those are the smallest increments on the cheap timers.

 

[low_and_slow]

Mephisto OG strains should have much less variation and phenos. As far as autos go? Possibly the most stable of all.......the Phisto originals.

Yeah, but now imagine that we can breed the auto gene into Photoperiods, and vice versa, targeting EVERYTHING. You want a little CBG? There's a gene for that. You want a better root structure to grow in containers? There are genes for that. You want something that does really well in a super arid climate? ....see where I'm going with this?

It's more about being able to breed from a position of total genomic information and less about weeding out the runts...

 

[Filthy_Casual]

Yeah, but now imagine that we can breed the auto gene into Photoperiods, and vice versa, targeting EVERYTHING. You want a little CBG? There's a gene for that. You want a better root structure to grow in containers? There are genes for that. You want something that does really well in a super arid climate? ....see where I'm going with this?

It's more about being able to breed from a position of total genomic information and less about weeding out the runts...

For me, outdoors is where I need this.

No mold? 2 month flower? sign me up! I still grow outside but I don't get full flower times and I don't often harvest before mold starts to show and forces me to cut them.

 

[Couch_Lock]

Sometimes if I know a prior grow had good potency, average yield I will continue the same strain in the next run, if I like the plants structure.

I prefer tight internodes and 12+ colas swayin from each plant. Little to no lower growth.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

@derek420colorado and I were talking about tissue culture the other day with autoflowers; that's a project I'd love to see done and documented on the forum in the near future.

 

[Couch_Lock]

Some breeders mix genetics for sole purposes, @ low_ and _slow
Agree. Some want to improve a strain they've already bred to be more mold resistant, pest resistant or maybe just to up the yield.

It kind of ruined yesteryears landrace strains. Thai stick, Acapulco Golds, Panama Reds, Jamaican Lambsbread, etc.

3 edits to make the low + slow hyper yep, im twisted....

 

[Filthy_Casual]

@derek420colorado and I were talking about tissue culture the other day with autoflowers; that's a project I'd love to see done and documented on the forum in the near future.

I don't even know what that means! Explain it for us idiots!

 

[low_and_slow]

Some breeders mix genetics for sole purposes, @ low_ and _slow
Agree. Some want to improve a strain they've already bred to be more mold resistant, pest resistant or maybe just to up the yield.

It kind of ruined yesteryears landrace strains. Thai stick, Acapulco Golds, Panama Reds, Jamaican Lambsbread, etc.

3 edits to make the low + slow hyper yep, im twisted....

The thing about truly coherent genomics is that it can undo all that hybridization to target attributes that are desired. If you had perfect knowledge of the cannabis genome, you could just select the genes you wanted in a cross and then make that plant a reality, either through guided breeding or straight up crispr snips. So you want to remove all the Afghan genes from a Thai strain? That would be possible; it'd be hard work, and it wouldn't make any sense pharmacologically, but it would be possible for nostalgia sake.

Keep in mind all those terms like 'pure' and 'landrace' are just relative terms from the weed of the past century. The genome is thousands or millions of years old, so the weed in any ancestral homeland like Africa or Nepal or even Australia for that matter is a hybrid compared to the first common ancestors of modern drug type cannabis.